fair play is less characteristic of groups than of individuals.

Science may carry us to Mars, but it will leave the earth peopled as ever by the inept.

There is a vast deal of make-believe in the carefully nurtured sentiment for country life, and the barefoot boy, and the mountain girl.

A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever and generally stopping before it gets there.

What puzzles most of us are the things which have been left in the movies rather than the things which have been taken out.

A man who listens because he has nothing to say can hardly be a source of inspiration. The only listening that counts is that of the talker who alternately absorbs and expresses ideas.

There is no illusion so permanent as that which enables us to look backward with complacency; there is no mental process so deceptive as the comparing of recollections with realities.